[Avodah] timeline??

[Lisa Liel]

On 12/20/2011 3:46 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 20/12/2011 3:56 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
>> *didn't ezra hasofer change the letters?? (and there fore the tagim
>> *were then added??) how then could R. Akiva learn the halachot*
>> *from the tagim (since he came earlier????) or was this a different*
>> *Akiva??*
>
> Rabbi Akiva was at least 400 years *after* Ezra!

That took me aback at first also, but it's just poor use of 
antecedents.  The parenthetical "he" was Ezra.

Lisa